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CVE-2010-3881
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.46%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References16
- SUSE-SA:2011:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [kvm] 20101030 [patch v2] x86: kvm: x86: fix information leak to userland (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 44666 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20101105 Re: CVE request: kernel: kvm kernel stack leakage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97e69aa62f8b5d338d6cff49be09e37cc1262838 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0124 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1024912 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2011:007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649920 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=831d9d02f9522e739825a51a11e3bc5aa531a905 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20101104 CVE request: kernel: kvm kernel stack leakage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0998 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3287 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-3859 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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